1. Introduction An Introduction to Linguistics

2. LINGUISTICS STUDIES LANGUAGES

3. WHY DO WE STUDY LINGUISTICS? Q:

4. There are over 5000 languages in the world.

5. Being a language learner, you have been learning “ what ”. Now you need to learn to explain “ WHY ”.

6. WHAT DO WE STUDY ABOUT LANGUAGE? Q:

7. The cores of Linguistics Phonetics & phonology Sounds Sound patterns Morphology Word formations Syntax Sentence structures Semantics/ pragmatics Word/ sentence/ discourse meanings

8. Interaction with other Disciplines Sociolinguistics Psycholinguistics Historical linguistics Computational linguistics Applied linguistics

9. WHAT GOOD DOES STUDYING LINGUISTICS DO TO MY CAREERS? Q:

10. The careers (… and more) that require linguistic knowledge translation and interpreting education (foreign) language instruction speech and language therapy publishingresearch information technology advertisingjournalism

11. You are going to be more sensitive to what you see and what you hear.

12. You are going to be person of humor to what you see and what you hear. German Coast Guard

13. HOW DO I PREPARE FOR THIS COURSE? Q:

14. The old trick ( but it always works ) Preview before class Pay attention to the class lecture and take notes. Review after class

15. "Linguistics is the science of language. It is the subject whose practitioners devote their energy to understanding why human language is the way it is. They study the history, acquisition, structure, and use of as many languages as possible - It would be nice to study them all, but life's too short." (Crystal: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ling/whatis.htm)

16. ENJOY THE CLASS! Studying languages is fun. (I know you don ’ t buy it now!)